According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC,) there were 30,000 American deaths from alcohol-induced causes in 2014. The CDC report notes that the deaths included alcohol poisoning and cirrhosis, liver damage primarily caused by d

Even though child services found no proof that she was a negligent parent, that didn't count for much against the overwhelmingly positive results from a hair test. The lab results said she was abusing alcohol on a regular basis and in enormous quantities.

The test results had all the trappings of credible forensic science, and was presented by a technician from the Motherisk Drug Testing Laboratory at Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital, Canada's foremost children's hospital.

"I told them they were wrong, but they didn't believe me. Nobody would listen," Marchand recalls.

Motherisk hair test results indicated that Marchand had been downing 48 drinks a day, for 90 days. "If you do the math, I would have died drinking that much" Marchand says. "There's no way I could function."

The court disagreed, and determined Marchand was unfit to have custody of her daughter.

This article is maddening. You would think that if they were coming up with completely and utterly ridiculous conclusions, that someone would've stepped back and said "wait a second, is it me or is this wrong".

Being a mother of five I could not even imagine what it would be like to not see my children almost every day, let alone being taken away from me for something I didn't do. It makes me cringe that justice can have such a blind eye at times. I all for protecting the welfare of children, many go unnoticed unfortunately, so when time, energy, and money is used on a false belief that the science couldn't be wrong then it's criminal. The bond between a child and parent is so vitally important and when you break that bond it can have lasting negative affects upon the child for the rest of his or her life. I hope these people get things resolved and families that were wrongfully accused can begin to heal.

3. They can’t even tell how many tests were false?!?! Marchand was showing 48 drinks a day on tests!?!? This is insane how is this not being talked about on an international scale among the all social classes? I have all these questions in mind, but as the article pointed out the people simply believed a professional organization would know what they are doing. Despite Marchand’s test results showing she should be killing herself every day. Kind of makes me thing about government run programs are there checks and balancing systems to prevent such great abuse of power. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out if there were other powerful organizations across broad categories getting away with such conduct.

Monday morning the City Council will begin consideration of a series of bills, called the Criminal Justice Reform Act, which would limit the use of criminal penalties to manage a variety of low level “quality of life” offenses such as public drinking, park code violations, noise, and public urination. City Council Member Vanessa Gibson, chair of the public safety committee, said she hopes these changes will reduce the problem of excessive criminalization in communities of color, a sentiment echoed by Council Member Rory Lancman, chair of the courts committee, on WNYC radio last Friday. Lancman noted that too many areas of the city have experienced overpolicing and overcriminalization.

The Act, being spearheaded by Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, already has broad support in the Council and the endorsement of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, and thus, Mayor de Blasio. It's encouraging that political leaders in New York City are exploring ways of reducing the impact of the criminal justice system on communities of color, but this package of reforms is at best a baby step, and at worst, may open the door to more racially discriminatory police actions.

The bills, if passed, would create new civil penalty options for these offences by allowing police to choose between a criminal summons and a civil one when encountering an offender, a choice made based on departmental guidelines. The criminal codes remain on the books per Bratton’s insistence, which he says is necessary so that officers can demand identification, conduct searches, and perform background checks.

Emotions boiled over into angry shouts outside a Regina courthouse as a bail hearing was held for a man accused of manslaughter in the death of a little girl. 37 year old Kevin Goforth is accused of the manslaughter of four year old June Alexus Dawn Goforth. His wife Tammy Lynn, 35, faces the same charges. Kevin Goforth appeared Thursday afternoon via video link. He kept his head down, never looking at the camera.

Licensed gun owners can now bring their firearms into Texas’ 10 state psychiatric hospitals.

Until this year, guns were banned at the state-run facilities, which house people with serious mental illnesses. No one — visitors, delivery people and the like — could bring firearms anywhere on the hospitals’ campuses. Even local law enforcement officers, who were allowed to bring their weapons into the facilities, regularly lock up their guns before entering Austin State Hospital out of an abundance of caution. That isn’t expected to change.

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The U.S. government is considering putting an end to a program that encourages Cuban doctors and nurses on overseas assignments to defect, a senior aide to President Barack Obama said, in a gesture emblematic of improving U.S.-Cuban relations.

These are actual tiny child handcuffs used by the US government to restrain captured Native American children and drag them away from their families to send them to boarding schools where their identities, cultures and their rights to speak their Native languages were forcefully stripped away from them. (Photo: US government)

Police deal with almost five cases a week where intimate photos of under-18s are shared without consent, figures obtained by The Telegraph reveal At least 200 children, some as young as 11, have been victims of "revenge porn."

At this point, Canadians everywhere have grown accustomed to skyrocketing, and sometimes unsustainable, police budgets. Municipalities all across the country have to deal with the fact that fiscal responsibility just does not seem to apply when it comes to the police. That’s a problem. But there’s a bigger problem underway in Canada: the steady mil

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